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Engraved hand colored in outline folded map. Shows administrative boundaries, cities and towns, rivers, lakes, etc. Relief shown by hachures.

Detailed Atlas of the Asian part of Russia with plans for major cities. Issued by Cartographic Institution, Alexey Ilyin, St. Petersburg, Contains 12 folded maps covering the vast Asian domains of the Russian Empire at an especially critical time in Russian and Asian history. Also represents the most complete information on geography, nature, population, social sphere, economy, history and culture of the country. Maps show political and administrative divisions, major cities, capitals, towns, rivers, roads and railroads. Bound in green paper covers with title and table of contents from the front cover. Alexey Ilyin, Russian lieutenant general, cartographer, publisher. produced many geographic atlases and maps, scientific, statistical, and special for different ministries, departments of mining, postal and telegraph, for scientific societies, including the Academy of Sciences and the Russian Geographic Society and for the Academy of Arts. In 1864 his lithography business was transferred to the embankment of the Kryukov Canal, where it was considerably expanded and got the name "Cartographic institution." In 1876 he issued a detailed atlas of Russia Empire.

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